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Calculates the width of UTF-8 strings with special/unprintable characters, which require special width treatment.

Syntax

 utf8.width ( )

Code Examples

server

This example shows the difference whenambi_is_doubleis set tofalseortrue.

local input = "днём"
local disabled = utf8.width( input, false )
local enabled = utf8.width( input, true )

print( disabled, enabled ) -- 4, 8

See Also

Reference

• Scripting Functions